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U.S. President Donald Trump will host French President Manuel Macro for a state visit on April 24, the White House said on Monday. "The president and first lady will welcome President and Mrs. Macron of France to the White House on April 24," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told...

The White House said on Monday it was up to China to decide whether to do away with presidential term limits after the country's ruling Communist Party made a proposal on Sunday that would allow President Xi Jinping to stay in office indefinitely. "That's a decision for China to make...

South Sudan is likely to return to famine within months, with 155,000 people likely to be in a catastrophic situation between May and July, a survey by a technical working group including South Sudanese and U.N. officials said Monday. The survey said 5.3 million people, 48 percent of...

At least two people were killed and dozens more injured on Sunday when security forces in Democratic Republic of Congo cracked down on church-led demonstrations against President Joseph Kabila, the United Nations said. Catholic and evangelical churchgoers across Congo had meant to take...

Some 50 nationalists on Sunday disrupted a news conference in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, which was organized by a group of Buddhist monks who have been pressing the government to take action against an anti-Muslim monk. The nationalists including 20 monks barged into an apartment...

At least two people were wounded as police fired live bullets and tear gas Sunday to break up a banned protest against DR Congo President Joseph Kabila in Kisangani, the country's third largest city, an AFP reporter said. Hundreds starting marching after mass at the city's cathedral but...

KABUL (AFP)- At least 23 people, mostly soldiers, were killed and more than a dozen wounded in a series of attacks and suicide bombings in Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, the latest assaults on the war-torn country's beleaguered security forces. In the biggest attack, Taliban...

YANGON (AFP)- Three bombs exploded early Saturday in the capital of Myanmar's Rakhine state, a cauldron of ethnic tensions roiled by insurgencies and a military crackdown on the Muslim Rohingya, injuring one police officer, officials said. The three blasts at separate locations around...

MOGADISHU (Reuters)- The death toll from twin car bomb blasts in the Somali capital late on Friday has risen to 45 from the initially reported 18, a senior government official said on Saturday. Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for the attack near the...

NEW YORK (AP) - The National Rifle Association is facing a corporate backlash as companies take a closer look at their investments, co-branding deals and other ties to the gun industry following the latest school massacre. A handful of companies have ended discount programs with the NRA...

Back to school and back to business for the school's staff, but life will never be the same for this Floridan community after 17 of its young people lost their lives. Teachers have begun to return to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to prepare for students to return to class next...

TOKYO (Reuters)- Japanese engineering researchers say they have created a tiny electronic light the size of a firefly that rides waves of ultrasound and could eventually figure in applications ranging from moving displays to projection mapping. Named Luciola for its resemblance to the firefly,...

The United States will continue its campaign of putting “maximum pressure” on North Korea, said the White House press secretary Saturday. Accompanied by an American delegation at the Winter Olympics in South Korea, Sarah Sanders, the press secretary, was speaking to reporters....

More than one in ten French women have been raped at least once, according to a study on sexual violence published Friday as the global abuse scandal widens. Twelve percent of the 2,167 women polled by the Fondation Jean Jaures think tank said they had suffered "sexual penetration with...

SAO PAULO, Brazil: Brazil's president says he will not run in October presidential elections and maintains that a military intervention he recently ordered was not aimed at improving his low approval ratings. President Michel Temer was asked in a Friday interview with a Sao Paulo radio...

A former senior official in Donald Trump's 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, Rick Gates, pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy against the United States and lying to investigators, and is cooperating with a federal probe into Russia's role in the election. The office of Special Counsel...

Five Turkish warships threatened to engage an Italian drillship Friday and forced it to turn back after it tried to break a two-week blockade off Cyprus, Cypriot officials said. The drillship from Italy's energy giant Eni has been halted in the island's politically sensitive waters...

The German government says one of its citizens held in Turkey has been released, but must remain in the country. The foreign ministry's announcement Friday follows the release last week of German journalist Deniz Yucel, who had been detained in Turkey for over a year. Yucel was held on...